Reconstruction

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Across
  1. 6. Congress tried to remove the president for violating the Tenure of Office Act
  2. 10. Efforts by white southerners to block social and political changes
  3. 14. President who enforced Reconstruction laws
  4. 17. President whose election ended Reconstruction
  5. 20. Second African American senator during Reconstruction
  6. 22. First African American U.S. senator
  7. 24. Period of rebuilding South after Civil War
  8. 28. General who proposed "40 acres and a mule"
  9. 29. Belief in strong federal action to protect freed people
  10. 30. Guaranteed citizenship and equal protection
Down
  1. 1. Arguments over giving land to former slaves
  2. 2. Laws dividing the South into military districts
  3. 3. Northerners who supported Reconstruction
  4. 4. Radical Republican senator who pushed for equal rights
  5. 5. Led Congressional Republicans
  6. 7. Organization providing food,jobs, and education for freed people
  7. 8. Abolished slavery in the United States
  8. 9. Part of the 14th Amendment guaranteeing fairness under the law
  9. 11. Secretary of Ware whose firing led to Johnson's impeachment
  10. 12. Law granting citizenship to formerly enslaved people
  11. 13. Farming system that trapped people in debt
  12. 15. Executive order freeing enslaved people in Confederate states
  13. 16. Violent resistance to Black civil rights during Reconstruction
  14. 18. school expansion First major system of public education in the South
  15. 19. Former enslaved man who became a leading voice for civil rights
  16. 21. U.S president after Lincoln
  17. 23. Guaranteed voting rights to men regardless of race
  18. 25. Southern whites who supported Reconstruction
  19. 26. Deal that ended Reconstruction by removing federal troops
  20. 27. Southern laws restricting the rights of freed people